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Official Goliath Thread

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Postby CoasterNick3157 on May 18th, 2014, 12:34 am
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Postby Goku1910 on May 18th, 2014, 4:20 am
stockboy300 wrote:I bought two t-shirts today and got my special tickets. I was hoping for a gold pass ride time. I'm starting to regret buying gold passes.


Agreed, where's the exclusivity?
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Postby BackwardsBlue on May 18th, 2014, 8:05 am
Thanks coaster nick for the video... I wonder how many shirts have been sold and how many will be sold all together


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Postby CoasterMike on May 18th, 2014, 8:23 am
JiggidyNDG, the one who took the picture of the nighttime event stated on Facebook that "This has NOTHING to do with any previously scheduled ride times or events, I was told". So I am assuming the ride will still open on May 31st.

Can't wait to ride this behemoth ride!
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Postby BackwardsBlue on May 18th, 2014, 8:35 am
Yeah the western Great Lakes ace group just posted that media day is still the 29th and that the change for the midnight event was not made lightly


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Postby GoBears on May 18th, 2014, 9:40 am
More track is up on the drop.

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Postby anewman35 on May 18th, 2014, 9:51 am
Goku1910 wrote:
stockboy300 wrote:I bought two t-shirts today and got my special tickets. I was hoping for a gold pass ride time. I'm starting to regret buying gold passes.


Agreed, where's the exclusivity?


Did they ever claim there would be any "exclusivity"? The main selling points of the Gold Pass are free parking, an extra Bring-A-Friend-Free, and early entry to the Water Park. If people bought them expecting some exclusive Goliath thing, that's on them, not the park.
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Postby stockboy300 on May 18th, 2014, 10:15 am
A perk listed for gold passes is Exclusive ride time events! My 12yr. Old Doesn't need parking. I know its my problem, when I saw Exclusive ride time events. I was hoping for something a little more for Goliath. I will have my shirt on with a big smile on my face at 11:59 p.m. June 1st.

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Postby anewman35 on May 18th, 2014, 10:19 am
stockboy300 wrote:A perk listed for gold passes is Exclusive ride time events! My 12yr. Old Doesn't need parking. I know its my problem, when I saw Exclusive ride time events. I was hoping for something a little more for Goliath. I will have my shirt on with a big smile on my face at 11:59 p.m. June 1st.

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Read https://www.sixflags.com/greatamerica/s ... son-passes a bit closer. The regular season pass also lists "Exclusive ride time events". The only things that the Gold pass has and the regular pass doesn't are the things shown in red.
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Postby GoBears on May 18th, 2014, 12:54 pm
Rest of the track for the drop is going on now. All that's left is the very top section of track, a couple more pieces for the lift, and zero-G stall.

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Postby Jacklw6499 on May 18th, 2014, 1:23 pm
Haven't been in the forums in a while but has anyone figured out if season pass holders can ride on the 30th? My friend was going to come down from MN but if it isn't happening I just wanted to let him know so we can reschedule. Thanks everyone.
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Postby BackwardsBlue on May 18th, 2014, 1:32 pm
Everything is as scheduled the only thing changed is the midnight event


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Postby BackwardsBlue on May 18th, 2014, 1:38 pm
Everything is as scheduled the only thing changed is the midnight event


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Postby Jacklw6499 on May 18th, 2014, 1:49 pm
BackwardsBlue wrote:Everything is as scheduled the only thing changed is the midnight event


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Thanks so much backwards blue. Just out of curiosity.. how did you find out?
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Postby BackwardsBlue on May 18th, 2014, 1:55 pm
The western Great Lakes ace page on Facebook they asked about the switch in their night event and they said they have only changed the midnight event nothing about the season pass day


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Postby DejaVu2001 on May 18th, 2014, 2:03 pm
^ Only post I see is this:
*** Media Day and Golden Ticket Ride Update ***
Here's the latest from the park:

"Media day is still May 29."

"(The) Midnight event is being switched to Sunday, June 1. Just like what the park signs say. It was a very last minute decision and not one that we made lightly."


I only see confirmation that the Midnight event is June 1st and Media Day is still May 29th. Nowhere is the Season Pass Day or the public opening mentioned in any way.

Clearly if they rescheduled the Midnight event, they had a reason, and until we know that reason or the park confirms the rest of the dates, nothing can be assumed.
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Postby BackwardsBlue on May 18th, 2014, 2:06 pm
CoasterMike wrote:JiggidyNDG, the one who took the picture of the nighttime event stated on Facebook that "This has NOTHING to do with any previously scheduled ride times or events, I was told". So I am assuming the ride will still open on May 31st.

Can't wait to ride this behemoth ride!


Combined with that information I'm making a educated guess. Since they have been pretty good about telling us event changes I'm going with the information already provided.


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Postby CoasterMike on May 18th, 2014, 2:45 pm
Haven't heard back from Six Flags about questions regarding Goliath. I'll let you know when I do.
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Postby anewman35 on May 18th, 2014, 3:32 pm
Nobody knows anything for sure, not even the park. The only way to know for sure what's going to happen is to wait. I'm sure as soon as anybody finds anything out, they'll post it here, no need for people to ask every day what is going on.
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Postby Jacklw6499 on May 18th, 2014, 3:42 pm
Has anyone thought about if they are going to plant grass in the Goliath dirt? Or are they just going to leave it? What do you guys think?
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Postby BBH on May 18th, 2014, 3:53 pm
Start of the drop is up:

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Postby Goku1910 on May 18th, 2014, 4:29 pm
Jacklw6499 wrote:Has anyone thought about if they are going to plant grass in the Goliath dirt? Or are they just going to leave it? What do you guys think?


Same as X-Flight. They'll plant their own. No laid out grass.
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Postby Jacklw6499 on May 18th, 2014, 4:48 pm
Goku1910 wrote:
Jacklw6499 wrote:Has anyone thought about if they are going to plant grass in the Goliath dirt? Or are they just going to leave it? What do you guys think?


Same as X-Flight. They'll plant their own. No laid out grass.

Got it. Also one more question. What is the estimated price of Goliath?
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Postby Iron Wolf 90-11 on May 18th, 2014, 6:07 pm
I think it was somewhere around 10 million.
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Postby BBH on May 18th, 2014, 6:16 pm
^Outlaw Run was $10M so I'd guess that's a correct estimate.


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